The Intifada That Was

Policeman standing next to a Jerusalem bus, after a suicide bombing, June 2002. Eyal Warshavsky

July 2000: Camp David peace conference with participation of then-prime minister Ehud Barak, Palestinian Authority head Yasser Arafat and U.S. president Bill Clinton fails; Israel and United States blame the Palestinian side

September 28, 2000: Visit to Temple Mount by opposition leader Ariel Sharon stirs serious disturbances at the site

September 29, 2000: Border Police officer shot to death by Palestinian policeman during joint Israeli-Palestinian patrol in Qalqilyah; seven Palestinians killed by Israel police on Temple Mount; unrest spreads to West Bank and Gaza Strip

September 30, 2000: French television station France 2 broadcasts shooting death of 12-year-old Mohammed al-Dura during an exchange of fire at Netzarim junction in Gaza; IDF is blamed

October 1, 2000: Palestinians try to seize control of Joseph's Tomb in Nablus, shooting Border Policeman Madhat Yusuf. Wounded and bleeding to death, Yusuf dies after Palestinian security forces prevent his evacuation for five hours

October 4, 2000: Paris summit meeting between Barak, Arafat and U.S. Secretary of State Madeleine Albright

October 1-8, 2000: Violent demonstrations by Arab Israelis in the north, 12 of whom, along with one Palestinian, are killed by Israeli police gunfire; later, a state commission of inquiry, headed by justice Theodor Or, is established to investigate the events

October 7, 2000: Bachor Jann, a Jewish Israeli from Rishon Letzion, killed by a stone thrown at his car from the Israeli Arab village of Jisr al-Zarqa on the coastal highway

October 12, 2000: Lynching in Ramallah: Two Israeli reserve soldiers, Vadim Nurzhitz and Yossi Avrahami, accidentally enter Ramallah and are murdered by a mob in the city's police station

April 12, 2002: Six killed in suicide attack in Jerusalem's Mahane Yehuda market

April 27, 2002: Four murdered in terrorist attack in West Bank settlement of Adura

May 7, 2002: Sixteen people murdered in suicide attack at Rishon Letzion club

May 19, 2002: Three killed in suicide attack in Netanya market

May 22, 2002: Two killed in suicide attack on pedestrian mall in Rishon Letzion

May 27, 2002: Two killed in suicide attack at Petah Tikva mall

May 28, 2002: Terrorist infiltrates West Bank settlement of Itamar and murders four Israelis

June 5, 2002: Seventeen Israelis killed when terrorist blows up a car next to a bus at Megiddo junction

June 18, 2002: Nineteen Israelis killed when terrorist blows up bus at Patt junction in Jerusalem

June 19, 2002: Six Israelis murdered in suicide attack at French Hill bus stop in Jerusalem

June 20, 2002: Terrorist infiltrates settlement of Itamar and murders five Israelis

July 16, 2002: Nine Israelis killed in terrorist attack near Immanuel in West Bank

July 17, 2002: Five people murdered in suicide attack at pedestrian mall in Tel Aviv

July 22, 2002: Salah Shehadeh, head of Hamas military wing in Gaza, killed when one-ton bomb is dropped on his home by Israel Air Force; 15 others, including his children and neighbors, also die in the attack

July 31, 2002: Seven people murdered in bomb attack on cafeteria at Hebrew University of Jerusalem's Mount Scopus campus, and two more die later. Five of the victims are American

August 4, 2002: Nine people murdered in suicide attack on bus at Meron junction

September 19, 2002: Six murdered in suicide attack on bus in Allenby Street in Tel Aviv

June 26, 2003: Palestinian organizations declare a hudna (truce ), which lasts (off and on ) less than two months

August 15, 2003: Mohammed Sider, head of Islamic Jihad in Hebron, assassinated by Israel

August 19, 2003: Twenty-three people killed in bomb blast on Jerusalem bus

August 21, 2003: Ismail Abu Shanab, one of Hamas' leaders and founders, assassinated by Israel in rocket attack on his car in Gaza

September 9, 2003: Eight Israelis murdered in suicide attack at soldiers' hitchhiking spot next to Tzrifin army base near Ramle; nine Israelis murdered in suicide attack at Cafe Hillel in Jerusalem's German Colony neighborhood

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